2004-05 Political Economy Seminars
Fall 2004
Speaker
Title
October 12
Matthew O. Jackson
Caltech
Vote Buying with Eddie Dekel and Asher Wolinsky.
October 26
Romain T. Wacziarg
Stanford GSB
Death and Development (co-authored with John McMillan and Peter
Lorentzen)
November 9
Massimo Morelli
Ohio State
Self Enforcing Voting in International Organizations
November 23
Tasos Kalandrakis
University of Rochester
Genericity of Minority Governments: the Role of Policy and Office
December 7
Catherine Hafer
NYU
Standoff and Coordination
Winter 2005
Speaker
Title
January 18
Roberto Rigobon
MIT
Rule of Law, Democracy, Openness, and Income: Estimating The
Interrelationships
February 1
Alan Wiseman
Ohio State
Bargaining in Legislatures over Particularistic and Collective Goods
March 1
Adam Meirowitz
Princeton University
Exclusionary Deliberation:
The design of deliberative institutions to aggregate preferences and
Information
In defense of exclusionary deliberation: communication and voting with
private beliefs and values
March 15
Bård Harstad
Northwestern University
Harmonization and Side Payments in Political Cooperation
March 29
Diego Comin
NYU
Lobbying and Technology Diffusion
Spring 2005
Speaker
Title
April 12
Dave Baron
Stanford GSB
Strategic activism and nonmarket strategy
April 26
Craig Volden
Ohio State
Intergovernmental Grants: A Model of Political Competition in a Federal
System
June 7
Ken Shotts
Stanford GSB
Information, Ideology, and Representation: The Case of Elected
Prosecutors
2003-04 Political Economy Seminars
Fall 2003
Speaker
Title
October 7
Jonathan Bendor
Stanford
Satisficing versus Optimizing with Sunil Kumar
October 21
Romain Wacziarg
Stanford
A Monte Carlo Study of Growth Regressions joint will Bill Hauk
November 6*
Joel Waldfogel
Wharton--University of
Pennsylvania
Does the New York Times Spread Ignorance and Apathy?
November 18
David Baron
Stanford
Persistent Media Bias
December 2
Marco Battaglini
Princeton
Policy Advice with Imperfectly Informed Experts
December 16
Betsey Stevenson
Forrester Research
Harvard University
The Internet and Job Search
Winter 2003
Speaker
Title
January 20
Keith Krehbiel
Stanford University
Strategic Appointments
February 3
George Akerlof
UC Berkeley
Identity and the Economics of Organizations
February 17
Justin Wolfers
Stanford University
Disagreement About Inflation Expectations
February 27°°
Ebonya Washington
MIT Econ
How Back Candidates Affect Voter Turnout and Candidate Positioning
March 2
Daniel Carpenter
Harvard University
A Theory of Approval Regulation
March 16
Ronny Razin
NYU
Group Decision-Making in the Shadow of Disagreement
March 30
Sven Feldmann
University of Chicago
Lobbying Bureaucrats: Delegation
and Influence Under Alternative Political Structures
Spring 2004
Speaker
Title
April 13
Sean Gailmard
University of Chicago
Fairness and Entitlement in Majoritarian Decision-Making
May 11°
John Roemer
Cancelled due to illness. To be rescheduled in the Fall
May 25
Brian Knight
Brown University
Are Policy Platforms Capitalized into Equity Prices? Evidence From the
Bush/Gore 2000 Presidential Election
June 1¹
Alberto Alesina
Harvard University
Bureaucrats or Politicians?
2002-03 Political Economy Seminars
Fall 2002
Speaker
Title
September 10
David Baron
Stanford University
Private Politics and Private Policy: A Theory of Boycotts
September 24
Justin Wolfers
Stanford University
Is Business Cycle Volatility Costly? Evidence from Surveys of Subjective
Wellbeing
October 8
David Lee
UC Berkeley
Joint seminar with Economics
Dept. Public Economics Seminar
Policy Convergence or Divergence? Evidence from U.S. House Roll Call
Voting Records
October 22
James Andreoni
Leadership Giving in Charitable Fund-Raising
University of Wisconsin
Joint seminar joint with Economics
Dept. Public Economics Seminar
November 5
Steve Callander Northwestern
University
Bandwagons and Momentum in Sequential Voting" and "Vote Timing and
Information Aggregation
November 19
David Stromberg
Stockholm University - IIES
Radio's Impact on Public Spending
December 3
Keith Krehbiel
Stanford University
Partisan Roll Rates in a Nonpartisan Legislature
Winter 2003
Speaker
Title
January 14
Barry Weingast
Stanford University
CANCELLED
January 28
Leeat Yariv
UCLA
Putting Your Ballot Where Your Mouth Is: An Analysis of Collective
Choice with Communication
February 11
Tom Palfrey
An Equilibrium Model of Federal Mandates
Caltech
Joint seminar with the Economics
February 25
Adam Meirowitz
Princeton University
March 11
Steve Levitt
University of Chicago
Joint seminar with the Economics
March 25
Tim Groseclose
Stanford University
A Measure of Media Bias
Spring 2003
Speaker
Title
April 8
James Snyder
MIT
Legislative Effectiveness and Legislative Life
April 22
Edward Glaeser
The Politics of Hate
Harvard University
Joint seminar with the Economics
May 6
Rohini Pande
Women, Marriage and Politics: The Political Salience of Changing Family
Columbia University
Form in Europe
Joint seminar with the Economics
May 20
Jonathan Rodden
Reviving Leviathan: Fiscal Federalism and the Growth of Government
MIT
Joint seminar with the Economics
June 3
Enrico Spolaore
Brown University
Accountability and Representation with Uncertain Policy Constraints
Adjustments in Different Government Systems
2001-02 Political Economy Seminars
Fall 2001
Speaker
Title
September 18
Witold Henisz
University of Pennsylvania
Interest Groups, Political Institutions and Electricity Investment (with
Bennet Zelner)
October 2
Nicola Persico
University of Pennsylvania
The Drawbacks of Electoral Competition (with Alessandro Lizzeri)
October 16
Robin Burgess
London School of Economics
The Political Economy of Government Responsiveness: Theory and
Evidence from India (with Timothy Besley)
October 30
Dean Lacy
Ohio State University
Nonseparable Preferences in Survey Responses
November 13
Rafael di Tella
Harvard University
A New Explanation for European Unemployment Based on Rational
Institutions" (with Robert MacCulloch)
November 27
Daniel Treisman
UCLA
Rational Appeasement
Winter 2002
Speaker
Title
January 22
Mo Fiorina
Stanford University
The 2000 US Presidential Election: Can Retrospective Voting Be Saved?
February 5
John Donohue
Stanford University
Legalized Abortion and Crime (joint with Steve Levitt)
February 14
Michael McBride
Yale University
Discrete Public Goods Under Threshold Uncertainty - Theory and
Experiments
February 19
Imran Rasul
LSE
Household Bargaining Over Fertility: Theory and Evidence From Malaysia
March 5
Raquel Fernandez
New York University
Marrying Your Mom: Mothers, Sons, and Women's Work and Education
March 19
J.R. De Shazo
UCLA
Devolution, Political Markets and Market Power
Spring 2002
Speaker
Title
April 2
Brandice Canes
MIT
Bureaucratic Decisions and the Lower Courts: An Analysis of Wetlands
Permitting
April 16
Raymond Fisman
Columbia University
Tax Rates and Tax Evasion: Evidence from "Missing Imports" in China
April 30
Gérard Roland
UC Berkeley
A Normal Parliament? Party Cohesion and Competition in the European
Parliament 1979-2001
May 14
Tim Groseclose
GSB, Stanford University
Notes on Extreme Sample Selection Bias: Conditions that Cause the
Correlation Between Two Variables to Switch Signs (with Jeff Milyo)
May 28
Catherine Wolfram
University California, Berkeley
Pharmaceutical Prices and Political Activity
May 30
Ken Shotts
Northwestern
A Time to Lead and a Time to Pander: The Conditional Nature of
Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion
2000-01 Political Economy Seminars
Fall 2000
Speaker
Title
October 3
Antonio Rangel
Stanford University
Legislative Institutions (with Doug Bernheim and Luis Rayo)
October 17
Simon Jackman
Stanford University
The Statistical Analysis of Legislative Roll Calls: a Unified Approach
(with Joshua Clinton and Doug Rivers)
October 31
Tim Groseclose
Stanford University
Why a Teaspoon of Position-Taking Drowns a Mountain of Policy
Preferences: A Theoretical Result (with Jeffrey Milyo)
November 14
Antonio Merlo
University of Pennsylvania
A Structural Model of Government Formation (with Daniel Diermeier)
December 12
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
Harvard University
Soft Lending and Hard Landing: Related Lending in Mexico (joint with
Rafael La Porta and Guillermo Zamarripa)
Winter 2001
Speaker
Title
January 9
Adam Meirowitz
Stanford University
Simple Spatial Models of Delegation (with Jon Bendor, Ami Glazer, Tom
Hammond)
February 6
Romain Wacziarg
Stanford University
Stages of Diversification (with Jean Imbs)
February 20
Keith Krehbiel
Stanford University
Testing Theories of Legislative Choice
March 6
Alison Alter
Stanford University
Electoral Exuberance? Political Business Cycles and the Stock Market?
(joint with Lucy Goodhart)
March 20
José Tavares
UCLA
Does Right or Left Matter? Cabinets, Credibility and Fiscal Adjustments
Spring 2001
Speaker
Title
April 17
David Cutler
Harvard University
The Economics of Better Health: The Case of Cardiovascular Disease
May 1
Dani Rodrik
Harvard University
Why Are Some People (and Countries) More Protectionist Than Others?
(joint with Anna Maria Mayda)
May 15
John Duggan
University of Rochester
Electoral Competition with Policy-Motivated Candidates (with Mark Fey)
May 23
Alex Cukierman
Tel Aviv University
When is the Median Voter Paradigm a Reasonable Guide for Policy
Choices in a Representative Democracy? (joint with Y. Spiegel)
May 29
Ignacio Ortuno Ortin
Universidad de Alicante
Public Funding of Political Parties
1999-00 Political Economy Seminars
Fall 1999
Speaker
Title
October 5
Werner Troesken
University of Pittsburgh
Did the Trusts Have Market Power: Evidence from Distilling, 1881-1899
(with Karen Clay)
October 19
Mike Ting
Adaptively Rational Voters and Turnout (with Jonathan Bendor and Daniel
Diermeier)
November 2
Nolan McCarty
Columbia University
Political Resource Allocation: Benefits and Costs of Voter Initiatives
November 16
Sven Feldmann
University of Chicago
Lobbying Legislatures (with Morten Bennedsen)
December 7
Alan Gerber
Yale University
The Effect of a Nonpartisan Get-Out-The-Vote Drive: An Experimental
Study
December 14
David Baron
Stanford University
Competitive Lobbying in a Majority-Rule Institution
Winter 2000
Speaker
Title
January 25
Christophe Crombez
Stanford IIS and Katholieke
Universiteit, Belgium
Institutional Reform and Codecision in the European Union
February 8
James Snyder
MIT
An Informational Rationale for Political Parties (with Michael Ting)
February 22
Kevin Grier
University of Oklahoma
Political Regime Change and the Real Interest Rate
March 7
David Laitin
Stanford University
Sons of the Soil, Immigrants and the State (with Jim Fearon)
March 21
David Austen-Smith
Northwestern University
Redistributing Income under Proportional Representation
Spring 2000
Speaker
Title
April 4
Ken Shotts
Northwestern University
True Leadership, Pandering, and Fake Leadership: A Theory of Executive
Policymaking (with Brandice Canes-Wrone and Michael Herron)
April 18
James Robinson
UC Berkeley
A Theory of Political Transitions (with Daron Acemoglu)
May 2
Avinash Dixit
Princeton University
Fiscal Discretion Destroys Monetary Commitment" (with Luisa
Lambertini)
May 16
Francisco Rodriguez
University of Maryland
An Interest Groups Theory of Human Capital Accumulation: Theory and
Evidence (with Jose Pineda)
May 30
Stephen Coate
Cornell University
Non-majoritarian Policy Outcomes and the Role of the Initiative" (with Tim
Besley)
June 13
Francesco Caselli
University of Chicago/Harvard
Bad Politicians (with Massimo Morelli)
1998-99 Political Economy Seminars
Fall 1998
Speaker
October 27
Jeffrey Milyo
Tufts University
Title
November 10
Randall Kroszner
University of Chicago
Corporate Campaign Contributions, Legislator Reputation and Political
Ambiguity: An Empirical Analysis
November 24
Jeffrey Jenkins
Michigan State University
Examining the Bonding Effects of Party: A Comparative Analysis of Roll
Call Voting in the US and Confederate Houses
December 8
Curtis Signorino
University of Rochester
Statistical Analysis of Finite Choice Models in Extensive Form
Winter 1999
Speaker
Title
January 12
Jonathan Bendor
Stanford University
Adaptive Political Parties and Downsian Competition
January 26
Jeffrey Lewis
Princeton University
Referendums, Initiatives, and State Legislative Partisanships
February 9
Dennis Yao
Wharton
The Sale of Ideas: Strategic Disclosure, Property Rights, and Incomplete
Contracts
February 23
Massimo Morelli
Iowa State University
Demand Competition and Policy Compromise in Legislative Bargaining
March 9
Antonio Rangel
Stanford University
Forward and Backward Intergenerational Goods
March 23
Thomas R. Palfrey
Caltech
An Experimental Study of Jury Decisions (with Richard D. McKelvey)
Spring 1999
Speaker
Title
April 6
Timothy Feddersen
Northwestern University
Abstention in Elections with Asymmetric Information and Diverse
Preferences
April 20
Howard Rosenthal
Princeton University and CASB
The Hunt for Party Discipline
May 4
Tim Groseclose
Stanford University
Buying the Bums Out: What's the Dollar Value of a Seat in Congress?
May 18
Alberto Alesina
Harvard University
Participation in Heterogeneous Communities
June 1
James Poterba
MIT
Fiscal Institutions and the Market for Government Debt